Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
#quotes #kerry-greenwood #helping

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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My dad in particular, I tend to use; I call him "The Brain." If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. ~Joshua Malina
#quotes #joshua-malina #father

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
#quotes #bill-gates #philanthropy #humanity

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
#quotes #james-stewart #acting